Dan Wieden is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 advertising

Advertising

Advertising is a form of communication used to persuade an audience to take some action with respect to products, ideas, or services. Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer behavior with respect to a commercial offering, although political and ideological advertising is also common...

 executive who co-founded Wieden+Kennedy

Wieden+Kennedy

Wieden+Kennedy is an independently owned American advertising agency best known for its work for Nike...

, and who coined the Nike tagline "Just Do It".

He and David Kennedy

David Kennedy (advertising)

David Kennedy is an American advertising executive who co-founded Wieden+Kennedy . He and Dan Wieden were listed as number 22 on the Advertising Age 100 ad people of the 20th century.-Early life:...

 were listed as number 22 on the Advertising Age

Advertising Age

Advertising Age is a magazine, delivering news, analysis and data on marketing and media. The magazine was started as a broadsheet newspaper in Chicago in 1930...

100 ad people of the 20th century. He was named one of America's 25 most intriguing entrepreneurs by Inc.

Inc. (magazine)

Inc. magazine, founded in 1979 and based in New York City, is a monthly publication focused on growing companies. The magazine publishes an annual list of the 500 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S., the "Inc...

Wieden has been Oregon’s Professional of the Year, Oregon’s Entrepreneur of the Year, one of the world’s 50 CyberElite by Time magazine, and one of 32 members of the One Club Creative Hall of Fame.

Wieden is the founder of Caldera, a nonprofit arts education organization and camp for at-risk youth located in Sisters, Oregon

Sisters, Oregon

Sisters is a city in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. It is part of the Bend, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 959 at the 2000 census, but more than doubled to 2038 as of the 2010 census.- History :...

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Wieden is featured in Doug Pray

Doug Pray

Doug Pray is an American documentary film director, cinematographer, and editor who often explores unique subcultures in his films. His work includes Surfwise a portrait of the nomadic, 11-member Doc Paskowitz family ; Big Rig , a documentary about truck drivers; Infamy , a documentary about...

's documentary

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 Art & Copy

Art & Copy

Art & Copy is a 2009 documentary film directed by Doug Pray about the advertising industry in the U.S. The film follows the careers of people from "advertising's creative revolution of the 1960s", including Hal Riney, George Lois, Mary Wells Lawrence, Dan Wieden, and Lee Clow...

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External links

• Dan Wieden profile in 100 ad people of the 20th century.
• Dan Wieden profile via University of Oregon
  University of Oregon
  -Colleges and schools:The University of Oregon is organized into eight schools and colleges—six professional schools and colleges, an Arts and Sciences College and an Honors College.- School of Architecture and Allied Arts :...
  
  
• Caldera, a nonprofit arts education organization founded by Wieden